Some data center operators are using increasingly warmer server inlet air temperatures to save energy and expand economizer usage. ASHRAE has expanded the acceptable humidity and temperature ranges it recommends for server environments. And some experts have gone as far to suggest inlet air temperatures could be expanded up to 95 degrees.
Matt Stansberry, Executive Editor of SearchDataCenter, talks with Robert McFarlane, Principal and Data Center Expert for Shen Milsom and Wlke, to discuss the tradeoffs of using warmer server inlet air temperatures to save energy.
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